Louisiana State Univ Pr, March 1991. First Edition. Cloth. First edition with full number line. Bound in half burgundy cloth lettered in gold with heathered grey boards. Very clean copy. Mylar wrapped to preserve. More
Routledge, November 1994. Trade Paperback. Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers surveys the most important figures who have influenced post-war thought. The reader is guided through structuralism, semiotics, post-Marxism and Annales history, on to modernity and postmodernity. With its comprehensive biographical and bibliographical information, this book provides a vital reference work of..... More
Clarendon Press, September 2006. Trade Paperback. A stellar selection of the world's most eminent philosophers give a picture of the current state of their subject, where it is going, and where it ought to be steered. Each offers a penetrating analysis of his or her particular specialism, building a volume..... More
Routledge, August 1991. Trade Paperback. First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. More
State University of New York Press, September 1985. Trade Paperback. Hermeneutics and Deconstruction provides an assessment of two dominant modes of thinking and writing in continental philosophy today. It addresses central issues in the theory of interpretation and in the strategies of textual reading. Placed in the context of contemporary..... More
Oxford University Press, July 2004. Paper Back. Philosophy is a dangerous profession, risking censorship, prison, even death. And no wonder: philosophers have questioned traditional pieties and threatened the established political order. Some claimed to know what was thought unknowable; others doubted what was believed to be certain. Some attacked religion..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, November 1994. Hardcover. From Plato's Republic and St. Augustine's Confessions through Marx's Capital and Sartre's Being and Nothingness, the extraordinary philosophical dialogue between great Western minds has flourished unabated through the ages. Dazzling in its genius and breadth, the long line of European and American intellectual..... More
Cengage Learning, January 1992. Hardcover. This outstanding anthology traces major critical statements from classic theorists like Plato to the contemporary. This standard historical textbook in the field focuses on important individual thinkers, and not particular schools of thought or isms. Current selections bring the anthology into contemporary times and show..... More
Easton Press, January 1995. Leather. Gilt-decorative red leather with raised spine bands. Silk endpapers and ribbon marker. All edges gilt. SIGNED BY MORIMER J. ADLER. More
Easton Press, January 1993. First Edition. Leather. This leather-bound First Edition is personally signed by Mortimer J. Adler. Dark grey leather with gold lettering and design. Moire end pages.Silk ribbon marker. Gold textblock edges with scratch amidst the gilt top edge. (273 pp.). More
Columbia University Press, April 2003. Hardcover. What do we mean when we say time passes? How do contingency and anachronism and other philosophical concepts bearing on time affect the more (seemingly) concrete realities of our political and cultural lives? In ways small and great, personal and cultural, we all experience..... More
Flatiron Books, September 2022. Hardcover. "An INVALUABLE RESOURCE to anyone who wants to think better." --Gretchen Rubin Award-winning YALE PROFESSOR Woo-kyoung Ahn delivers "A MUST-READ--a smart and compellingly readable guide to cutting-edge research into how people think." (Paul Bloom) "A FUN exploration." --Dax Shepard Psychologist Woo-kyoung Ahn devised a course..... More
Frederick Ungar, January 1978. Paper Back. Octavo. Shelfwear. Wear to cover edges. Moderate sunning to spine. First U.S. paperback printing. Originally issued in 1928 as 'Propos sur le Bonheur'. Not common. [252 pages]. More
Cornell University Press, March 2004. Trade Paperback. Alfarabi was among the first to explore the tensions between the philosophy of classical Greece and that of Islam, as well as of religion generally. His writings, extraordinary in their breadth and deep learning, have had a profound impact on Islamic and Jewish..... More
Library of America, September 2022. Paper Back. More urgent than ever, two landmark essays by the legendary political theorist on the greatest threat to democracy, gathered with a new introduction by David Bromwich "No one," Hannah Arendt observed, "has ever counted truthfulness as a political virtue." But why do politicians..... More
Oxford University Press, January 1975. Paper Back. More
Oxford University Press, USA, April 1998. Paper Back. The Politics is one of the most influential texts in the history of political thought, and it raises issues which still confront anyone who wants to think seriously about the ways in which human societies are organized and governed. By examining the..... More
OH Editions, November 2022. Unknown. Aristotle is a titan of classic philosophy, and one of the most-recognised thinkers in global history. In Politics, Aristotle examines government, politics and how societies are run - from households to city states - and establishes how successful constitutions can best be initiated and upheld..... More
The Penguin Classics / Penguin Books, 1962. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with edgewear. Darkened spine slightly leaning. Previous owner's name & a date in ballpoint upper right corner of first inside page. [320 pages). More
University Press of Kentucky, June 1983. Trade Paperback. Deconstruction -- a mode of close reading associated with the contemporary philosopher Jacques Derrida and other members of the "Yale School" -- is the current critical rage, and is likely to remain so for some time. Reading Deconstruction / Deconstructive Reading offers..... More
Osford, 1979. Reprint. Paper Back. The late J.L. Austin's influence on contemporary philosophy was substantial during his lifetime, and has grown greatly since his death in 1960. This third edition of Philosophical Papers, the first edition of which was published in 1961, includes all of Austin's published papers (except Performatif-Constatif)..... More
Verso, February 2012. Trade Paperback. Polemics is a series of brilliant metapolitical reflections, demolishing established opinion and dominant propaganda, and reorienting our understanding of events from the Kosovo and Iraq wars to the Paris Commune and the Cultural Revolution. At once witty and profound, Badiou presents a series of radical..... More
Other Press, October 2010. Hardcover. Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love such questions arise in most people s lives. They are all versions of a bigger..... More
Gerald Duckworth, June 1979. Paper Back. Shelf wear to the cover. Previous owner's name inked/stamped inside front cover. Underlining on several pages. More
